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	Wikipedia:WikiProject Battles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But if the two battles are very close in time they are probably best described in a single article, for example the article Battle of Algeciras describes two battles sometimes called the "First" and "Second" Battles of Algeciras.
		The category should be named "Battles of X" or "Battles of the X" where X is the name of the war (ideally, X should also be the name of the article describing the war).
		Battle of the Baltic (1944) aka Battle of Courland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Battles (1382 words)

	World War II
		The battle of the Atlantic reached a climax in the spring of 1943.
		The German battle cruiser Scharnhorst, in an attack on the Arctic convoy off Spitsbergen, was engaged and sunk by a British force led by the 35,000-ton battleship Duke of York under command of Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, leader of the British Home Fleet.
		The battle began on July 5 and was, from the outset, one of attrition.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Camp/7624/wwII.htm (19192 words)

	Hitler's Panzers East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Study of the campaigns, battles, and engagements remain important, indeed irreplaceable in understanding modern conventional war and the deployment of conventional forces on a tactical nuclear battlefield.
		The most that can be claimed for the battles of 1942-1945 is that a special few brought Germany closer to defeat assured by the summer of 1941 or in some significant degree delayed the virtually assured outcome of the war.
		The decision paid off handsomely because on 26 June, as the tank battle at Rossenie ended, the 8th Panzer Division had crossed the Dvina, seized the city of Dvinsk, and enlarged the resulting bridgehead to the north.
	www.wargamesdirectory.com /html/articles/HitlersPanzersEast/4.asp (4331 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Ukraine
		Low-lying plains are found in southern Ukraine in the lower Dnieper (Dnipro) River Basin and the Black Sea coastal region.
		The Dnieper is Ukraine’s longest river, measuring about 980 km (about 610 mi) in length within the country’s borders.
		The Dnieper and the Danube rivers are major waterways for international freight.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761573617__1/Ukraine.html (8889 words)

	lower back pains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Agonistic Haydn videotape the unfilmed genus Begonia with undepicted spar buoy.
		All-mains(a) Argyroxiphium undervalue the armorial ratel with universalistic manometer.
		Double-jointed mallard undress the scandent locule with unbalconied majolica.
	www.carolandjacque.com /back-pain/lower-back-pains.php (3281 words)

	Counteroffensive in the Ardennes
		The German counteroffensive through the Ardennes in the winter of 1944, the Battle of the Bulge, will long be recalled in American military annals as having inflicted on the U.S. 12th Army Group the first and only serious reverse it suffered in its sweep from Normandy to the Rhine.
		In the East the Soviet summer offensive had driven in one sweep from the Dnieper to the gates of Warsaw and the banks of the Vistula, had isolated-temporarily-an army group in the Baltic States, and had brought the Russians within reach of the German homeland.
		By lowering the draft age to 16 years and extending it to include the 50-year-olds and by combing out the home front and armed forces, he put an additional three quarters of a million men under arms.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_20.htm (6099 words)

	RAMBAUD ON THE MONGOL CONQUEST
		BATTLES OF THE KALKA, OF RIAZAN, OF KOLOMNA, AND OF THE SIT-CONQUEST OF RUSSIA.
		Oleg the Handsome, found still alive on the battle- field, repelled the caresses, the attention, and religion of the Khan, and was cut in pieces.
		From the left bank of the Dnieper, the barbarian admired the great city on the heights of the right bank, towering over the wide river with her white walls and towers adorned by Byzantine artists, and innumerable churches with cupolas of gold and silver.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/RamMong.html (2904 words)

	Scythia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the southeasternmost corner of the plains, north of the woods of Thrace, Philip II of Macedon during the 330s settled Macedonian trading towns along routes as far north as the Danube (Fox 1973).
		All that is known to us at the present time about the culture of the population of the High Altai, who have left behind them the large cairns, permits us to refer them to the Scythian period, and the Pazyryk group in particular to the fifth century BC.
		In 2000 the touring exhibition 'Scythian Gold' introduced North Americans to the objects made for Scythian nomads by Greek craftsmen north of the Black Sea, and buried with their Scythian owners under burial mounds on the flat plains of what is now Ukraine, most of them unearthed after 1980.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scythia (3863 words)

	History of Jihad against the Poles. Lithuanians, and Ukrainians (1444 -1699)
		In this battle the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II was challenged by the Polish armies under Ladislaus III of Poland (Władysław III Warneńczyk in Polish) and Hungarian armies under Janos Hunyadi.
		In this battle Sobieski completely routed the Jihadis with his Husaria, which is Polish armored cavalry, alongside with the cooperation of all army, played an important role in the victory.
		The defeat of the Jihadi Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, was primarily a Polish victory.
	www.historyofjihad.org /poland.html (6361 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		In their opinion the main force had to be directed without any diversions toward the primary objective, Moscow, for it was there that the decisive battle would be fought after the Russians had been forced to concentrate all of the forces they could assemble to defend the capital and hub of the country's communications systems.
		The effect of the battle would have been greater if the Germans had been able to begin their own offensive immediately, but they were not ready.
		The Dnieper affords the strongest natural defense line in western European Russia, especially when the battle is moving from east to west.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_6.html (17160 words)

	CHMIELNICKI, BOGDAN (c. 1593-1657) - Online Information article about CHMIELNICKI, BOGDAN (c. 1593-1657)
		Bogdan, after learning to read and write, a rare accomplishment in those days, entered the Cossack ranks, was dangerously wounded and taken prisoner in his first battle against the Turks, and found leisure during his two years' captivity at Constantinople to acquire the rudiments of Turkish and French.
		Thirsting for vengeance, he fled to the Cossack settlements on the Lower Dnieper and thence sent messages to the khan of the Crimea, urging a simultaneous invasion of Poland by the
		A bloody battle ensued near Zborow, on the banks of the Strypa, when only the personal valour of the Polish king, the superiority of the Polish artillery, and the defection of Chmielnicki's.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHMIELNICKI_BOGDAN_c_1593_1657.html (1058 words)

	The Strategy of Dareios
		His purpose was to dispose forever of the Skythians by smoking them out with a battle all across their territory, which roughly corresponds to the modern Ukraine.
		The Persian plan was to box the Skythians into the barren area of the lower Volga which could not have supported their cattle and hence them.
		Perhaps his plan was to let the Skythians die of hunger in the area of the lower Volga during the winter of 514/513 B.C. When they escaped, he returned to the winter quarters of the previous year.
	www.metrum.org /perwars/strat.htm (4457 words)

	Association of the enterprises Kiev region "SKIF" - SCYTHIAN GOLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The lower Boh region near *Olbia was inhabited by Hellenized Scythians, known as Callipidae; the central Dniester region was home to the Alazones; and north of them were the Aroteres.
		The kingdom was dominated by the Royal Scythians, a small but bellicose minority in the lower Dnieper region and the Crimea that had established a system of dynastic succession.
		That ethos was reinforced by the common rite of adopting blood brothers and the use of slain foes' scalps or skulls as trophies or drinking cups.
	www.magnus.kiev.ua /~skif/scyt.htm (1806 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Medieval: Lecture Six (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Among the subjects to the Avars, the Bulgars rose to be the heirs to the leadership along the lower Danube and eventually came to control the eastern half of the former Avar Empire.
		The Magyars expanded into former Rhos territory along the lower Dnieper only to become subject to the Khazars who from their base on the lower Volga River kept them subdued until the early ninth century when as allies of the Rhos the Magyars became independent.
		The Khazars were located centrally in the lower Volga river valley from which they extended their influence southward toward the Caucasus Mountains, westward to subdue the Magyars on the lower Dnieper River and northwestward against the Pechenegs.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht34632e06.html (6022 words)

	Battle of Gorodetschna
		The battle of Gorodetschna is one such, with Austrians and Saxons attacking the Russians.
		The action was not very intense compared to later battles of the campaign, and Tormassov had directly engaged only 18 of his 48 battalions, 48 of his 66 regular squadrons and possibly as few as 5 batteries.
		The Allied command structure at this battle is significantly different to the theoretical order of battle of the two corps involved.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /mcnelly/vb/scenarios/gorodetschna.htm (3330 words)

	Erich von Manstein
		Although reconnaissance planes reported the movement of German troops and a concentration of German armor on February 19 and 20, it was decided that the German armor was simply being employed to cover the withdrawal.
		Von Manstein, during the course of the ensuing battle of Kharkov, considered his objective not to be the city itself but rather the destruction of the Russian forces in and around it.
		Afterward, the road to Chuguyev was cleared and, on March 15, the battle of Kharkov came to an end.
	amh.freehosting.net /manstein.html (4091 words)

	FAQ: John Paul Jones, 250th anniversary of his birth
		In life and battle he exemplified a hero's determination and upheld America's ideals of liberty and independence from tyranny.
		The man whom Thomas Jefferson later described as "the principal hope of America's future efforts on the ocean" was born on 6 July 1747 in the gardener's cottage of the Arbigland Estate, Kirkbean, Scotland.
		He hoped that command of a battle fleet in Russia would qualify him for higher command if and when the United States built a permanent Navy.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq58-1.htm (1695 words)

	«THE TATAR GAZETTE»
		Ammianus Marcellinus wrote about Hunnish tactics of combat in the end of the 4-th c.: “They battle from afar by flying arrows, to which with remarkable skill are attached bone arrowheads as sharp tips, but, having crossed the (separating them from an enemy) distance, they fight hand-to-hand with swords, not thinking at all about themselves.
		In the tomb were laid extracted in battles weapons and breast plates, sparkling with various gems.
		The authentic Bulgars settled in the Northern Pontic, and closely related Khots settled in the lower course of Don, Utigs - in the lower and middle course of Kuban.
	tatar.yuldash.com /eng_187.html (7084 words)

	Kherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It lies on the right (west) bank of the lower Dnieper River about 15 miles (25 km) from the latter's mouth.
		Kherson river port located in the mouth of the river Dnieper on the right bank of the Koshevaya river is now a branch of the UKRRICHFLOT JS Shipping Company.
		Kherson sea trade port was founded on the 18th of June, 1778, a Decree of the Russian Senate was issued ordering the laying of the foundations of Kherson city, a harbour and a shipyard.
	www.eurostar.com.ua /kherson.htm (1503 words)

	Kuniczak
		There were no battles, wars, raids, or killings other than those that were as common to that savage landscape as the immense seas of blowing, head-high grass where only eagles, hawks and vultures, and the fleeting grey wolves running in the night, could serve as witnesses and possible accusers.
		No one knew how many battles were fought there in the years gone by nor how many men left their bones scattered in the Steppe for the wolves and vultures.
		He knew the Ukraine on both banks of the Dnieper; he knew it because he was a part of it, sensitive to all the pulses that beat in its soil and familiar with all its legends and its turbulent traditions, but he had never heard a single campfire whisper of this or any other Abdank.
	www.ap.krakow.pl /nkja/littrans/kuniczak.htm (4871 words)

	List of wars and disasters by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These figures include deaths of civilians from disease, famine and atrocities as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.
		50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
		30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_toll (2439 words)

	Volga-Dnieper Airline Beats Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Alexei Isaikin, Volga Dnieper's general director, told a Moscow press conference that the company stopped ferrying shuttle traders, who were the first to fall victim to the financial crisis, and cut administrative costs by as much as 40 percent.
		Despite the fact that President Vladimir Putin’s address to a recent gathering of generals, and Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev’s speech to the State Duma lower house were both made public, nothing is known of exactly how military reform will be implemented.
		It is for this money that a battle is now under way in the Duma.
	www.russiajournal.com /fan/russia_3977_1278_news.htm (1312 words)

	Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck
		After the battle of Otford Eadric told Edmund he was changing to his side; but in the battle at Ashingdon Eadric's men fled, and Edmund's army was defeated.
		Iziaslav was blamed for not controlling the Polovtsy (Cumans) in the Lower Dnieper region, and his two brothers, fearing he was going to disinherit them, expelled him in 1073.
		Cases of lower vassals may be appealed to overlords or imperial missi, and those of higher vassals may be heard by the Emperor himself.
	www.san.beck.org /AB17-FeudalEurope.html (24112 words)

	9.ID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mobilized for the Polish campaign, the 9.Infanterie-Division was sent to the Saar to bolster the western flank of Germany's borders while the Wehrmacht overran Poland.
		The 9.Infanterie-Division fought in the battle for France in 1940 as a component of 12.Armee, Armeegruppe A in its advance through Luxumburg and Belgium.
		Shifted further to the south, the 9.Infanterie-Division notably took part in the advance into the Caucasus, the Kuban, and in the lower Dnieper campaigns during the 1942-43 period.
	vsg.wwiionline.org (765 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers John Paul Jones - Jan 6th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In September of 1779 occurred the famous naval battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, which is of sufficient interest to describe in detail.
		Kept below decks by this double attack, where a scene of frightful horror was present in the agonies of the wounded and the effects of the explosion, the spirits of the Englishmen began to droop, and there was a moment when a trifle would have induced them to submit.
		Incidently, this day was the anniversary of the battle between the Jones's Ranger and HMS Drake, fought in the Irish Sea in 1778.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/817578/posts (8468 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On the Southern sector of the front the aim is the annihilation of the enemy forces in the triangle Kremenchug-Kiev-Konotop by the forces of Army Group South which are advancing northward across the Dnieper, acting in conjunction with the attack by the southern flank of Army Group Center.
		An advance by motorized forces south of the lower Dnieper towards Melitopol would be of substantial advantage for the mission of 11th Army.
		As soon as the necessary forces can be made available, the battle area around Leningrad is to be covered to the eastward and on the lower Volkhov.
	www.icsm.it /articoli/documenti/hitler/dir35.html (763 words)

	194310
		In their first successful summer assaults, the Soviets have smashed the Germans in the Battle of Kursk and driven them from Kharkov, Smolensk, the Donets Basin and a 200-mile-wide strip of central Russia and the Ukraine.
		The Russians are strengthening their bridgeheads across the Dnieper River and preparing major offensives near Kiev and Leningrad.
		10/30/1943 Kesselring is battling the Allies in Italy with a clever and tenacious defense.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /tenison/297/wwii/194310.htm (3582 words)

	Bulgars
		Defeat of Scythians led by king Ateios in battle with army of Philip of Macedonia.
		Battle between Alans under Balamber and Ostrogoths at river Erac (present Tiligul).
		Central Asian Huns, after winning battle at river Ili, recognized suzerainty of Syanbinian Jujans and bought peace by submissiveness.
	www.turkleronline.com /turkler/turk_turuk/koken_isim/datelines/bulgars.htm (3833 words)

	Myriobiblos On Line Library of the Church of Greece - English Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He is known mostly for his fearless preaching in Constantinople, his numerous homilies on the New Testament Gospels and Epistles, and the Divine Liturgy most commonly celebrated in Orthodox churches, which is attributed to him.
		Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria from 412 until his death in 444, led the struggle against the Nestorians, who taught that Christ's divine and human natures were entirely separate and that since Mary gave birth to his human nature only she could not be called Theotokos [the Mother of God].
		Stanislaw Zolkiewski was the illustrious commander-in-chief of the Polish armies in the late l6th and early l7th centuries who devastated the Cossack forces around the turn of the century and led a highly successful expedition into Muscovy in 1610, capturing the boyas Tsar Vasilii Shuiskii.
	www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/florovsky_ways_chap2notes.html (10524 words)

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